Shortpacked! by David Willis
Toys are serious business.
Convention appearances:
Calgary Expo Calgary, AB: April 26-28
Phoenix Comicon Phoenix, AZ: May 23-26, 2013
BotCon San Diego, CA: June 28-30
San Diego Comic-Con San Diego, CA: July 18-21
SPX Bethesda, MD: September 14-15
Phoenix Comicon Phoenix, AZ: May 23-26, 2013
BotCon San Diego, CA: June 28-30
San Diego Comic-Con San Diego, CA: July 18-21
SPX Bethesda, MD: September 14-15
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Templar, AZ
The Transformers Wiki
Hail to the Slash
80 page GIANT
Axe Cop
The Book of Biff
Butt-Taco
Comics Curmudgeon
College Roomies from Hell!!!
Diesel Sweeties
Dinosaur Comics
Dr. McNinja
Dresden Codak
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Are you saying that your human friends don’t mean any more to you than any other random meatbag?
When will humanity learn that all men are equally inferior to robots.
When they watch enough robot maid anime of cause.
What series is this and where can I find it?
Check the tags. Transformers Prime.
My personal favorite robot maid anime is “Hand Maid May”. If you don’t mind one intentionally annoying character and a lot of fanservice, it’s quite enjoyable.
I like Steel Angel Kurumi.
Mahoromatic. ^_^
we are all equal, but some of us are more equal.
Optimus Prime’s compassion for all living things is his greatest weakness.
If that’s his greatest weakness, then they don’t even need to be humans. Megatron could just threaten his three closest subordinates for the same effect.
Or some microbes.
Or some nonsentient polygons.
I would LOVE to see that.
Megatron: “Surrender, Prime, and I’ll kill Starscream!”
Prime: “Or. You mean Surrender OR you’ll kill Starscream.”
Megatron: “…Really? Okay, whichever you prefer, I guess.”
I unno…if there’s any entity in the universe shy of Unicron that I could see Optimus being OK with offing, it’s Screamer.
Sure he’s not as evil as Megs, but there’s something especially annoying about that little craven. (In-universe…he’s hilarious to watch.)
If it was G1 Starscream, I’d imagine Optimus would be happy to let Megatron kill him, just so no one would subjected to that screeching voice anymore. ^_~
Freedom is the right of ALL Sentient Beings. All of them. He’s a secret hippy.
Yes, this just made my morning
I need to know the source of your avatar, for purely unscientific reasons.
Today’s grav is a humanised Gadget from Rescue Rangers.
And it is awesome!
Just goes to show the cuteness of Gadget Hackwrench transcends all her perminations.
That’s a “You care about ALL these filthy humans?!?!” face if I ever saw one.
That’s the only way it would make sense. Megatron thinks of the meatbags as being so far below him that it never occured to him Prime might care for them.
And surely, if he does care for some, it’s only those *specific* ones, right?
Like pets!
Observation: Every time I hear someone use the term ‘meatbag’, I can’t help thinking about one of my favorite robot psychopaths.
You and me both!
you mean like pets?
So true.
I automatically read this in Frank Welker and Peter Cullen’s voices, and that made it about a thousand times funnier.
Reading anything in their voices makes everything funnier.
“At the end of this day, one will stand, one will not get tittysprinkles on their hot fudge butt.”
That may be, but that line sounds funnier to me in Cullen’s Prime voice than it does in Welker’s Megatron voice. I clarify since I know they did more than just the main role on that show, and even other voices for other things. Picturing Welker’s Scooby Doo voice doing that line is vastly funnier to me than Cullen’s Eeyore voice doing it.
Maybe Megs should just confess the war’s lasted this long because he enjoys competing with Optimus?
Willis, the fact that you are such a big fan of Transformers: Prime makes me so happy, you have no idea. Seeing Optimus and Megatron drawn in your style was a pleasant surprise.
Megatron’s “Who farted?” face.
http://wonderwig.tumblr.com/post/34551376914/willis-art-was-top-notch-tonight-but-something
Or you could just trick him into cheating at a videogame.
It’s not Megatron’s stunned face that did it for me, it’s OP’s facepalm.
Ugh, I hate that I absolutely have to nitpick about this, but it’s been a long time since we crossed into “7 Billion” Territory. Does nobody pay attention to their own planet, like, at all?
I don’t understand your math.
Oh, the number of humans. I was thinking the number of years of Cybertronian war, and I was confused. WILL FIX.
No, I would never question your transformer knowledge. Other knowledges are fair game.
IS it actually 4 million years in Prime? They keep freakin’ changing it. It was like 9 million in the original series (if you believe the Orion Pax episode) and I swear I remember that it was only several thousand in the movie-verse.
I don’t think we know yet for certain. I don’t think there’s been any real number given except for certain Fall of Cybertron promotional materials implying that Shockwave might have gotten his information on dinosaurs from his time period’s Earth, which would place the War for Cybertron somewhere around 70 million years ago (if you ignore stegosaurs having been extinct long before then). But that’s kind of nuts. And the comic shows Shockwave could look “through spacetime” and already knew about the 65-million-years-ago meteor that killed the dinosaurs, so. I defaulted to 4 million years, which is what most continuities, other than the cartoon, as you’ve noted, go with.
(FUN TRIVIA: In the Marvel stuff, the first issue notes that the war only began its first hundred years before the Ark went crashing into Earth and rested there for four million.)
You Know we don’t!!! *Smack*
Oh come now, the bargaining power is a little different…
Friendships and bonds and all that! Surely there’s a little more desperation going on here.
On the contrary, one of Prime’s friends would probably pull the whole “Don’t do it! If he wins we’re all screwed!” noble sacrifice shtick. A random nobody would be all “Help! Save me!”
I think a random human would be too freaked out to say anything comprehensible, let alone figure out which of the two group of giant alien doombots to plead for help.
No, no, those are not doombots.
You can tell because they don’t have capes and they don’t refer to themselves in third person with capital letters.
Kneel before Pintsize!
Kneelie before Wheelie!
Kneel before me, Bender
I think it’s pretty easy to figure out which to beg for help – the ones who DIDN’T put you in their left-over peanut butter jars.
I dunno. The Bayformers can barely remember that their long-time comrades-in-arms existed five minutes after their gruesome murders. I doubt they’d treat random humans any worse than their closest friends and allies.
Which of course is to say that they probably don’t treat their human friends any better than any other random human off the street, which, now that I think about it, is pretty consistent with Bayformers 3.
I think they don’t get that worked up about their comrades dying, because they’re freaking robots that can be fixed as soon as anyone actually feels like doing it.
This would be a more convincing justification if they’d ever fixed anyone. Ratchet’s best work was repairing a voice module that Bumblebee never used again.
The Autobots are very lazy, that is true. The Decepticons at least have some initiative.
Well, Megatron’s a dumbass, but what’s Optimus’ excuse?
A dodgy OS perhaps?
… His brain is running on a Mac OS?
Mack OS. But he’s a Freightliner. Hence the problem.
Ok, you win my internet for the day award.
Compiling error in his pontification subroutine.
Meanwhile, the party on the Left Coast sounds rather…involved. I hope the employees of Shortpacked! have an unlooted and unburned place of business tomorrow.
If robots could have aneurysms, I’d expect them to look like Megatron in panel 4.
/\ hehe what doomdarts said XD … don’t you mean optimus? or megatron panel 3?
plasma mongoose, is your icon from an anime\manga \ webcomic? if so what is it? I think I recognize it?…
/\ hehe what doomdarts said XD
plasma mongoose, is your icon from an anime\manga \ webcomic? if so what is it? I think I recognize it?…
The grav I am using as of this time is a humanised Gadget from Rescue Rangers.
Someone rescue her cleavage from being obscured by the bottom of the frame.
Mouse-Gadget wore an undershirt to avoid just this kind of wardrobe malfunction.
Heh. That face on Megs is almost as awesome as his just-shit-his-neutronium-boxers face when Optimus cut the mountain in half on the actual show.
Well, it’s Optimus. He is crazy levels of noble and compassionate. It’s oddly sweet in a rather impractical way.
But, then again, he IS everyone’s Big Robot Dad.
“The exact same bargaining power: zero. Now… GIVE ME YOUR FACE!!!”
Poor Optimus. He’s never gonna live that one down, is he?
Thank the matrix that Transformers had already established alternate continuities by that point, because if it hadn’t we’d have to do so in a hurry.
I don’t know it could of actually been worse for Megatron to pick them over random humans… Been a while since I watched any Transformers so I am going to go with a Superman analogy.
Scenario 1
Villan – “If you try and stop me Superman I will kill everyone in Metropolis!”
Superman – “You fiend! I will stop you”
Scenario 2
Villan – “If you try and stop me Superman I will kill Lois Lane!”
Superman – “YOU MOTHER F@~$ I AM GOING TO F@~$ING RIP YOU A NEW A#% AND SHOVE YOUR D$£@ UP IT!”
OK maybe not that menta but lets face it when Superman thought Batman was dead because of Luthor he nearly ripped his limbs off….
I imagen Prime to be the same… if not hes a cold heartless robot….oh…wait…
But, doesn’t everyone in Metropolis implicitly include Lois?
….errrr…. not if shes at the fortress of solitude? …… Look a demon duck *runs*
Oh no! A distraction!
Oh no! A distraction!
Bad guys is so dumb
You might want to capture specific humans if they’ve been foiling plans, but yea, with a lot of goodies? Any random hostage will do!
“Also, we have all of these relics here that can freeze your ass in place and render any plan you have null and void. You know, the same relics we used to completely destroy most of your Vehicons just a few minutes ago?”
I thuoght the exact same thing! Especially with Bulkhead holding the immobilizer. WTF Autobots?!?
Just imagine if that was an animated Picard-style facepalm in the comic.
/came a little
Megatron’s ‘doh!’ face is awesome.
And so Megatron killed off those three and then proceeded to abduct more to use as a bargaining chip. All thanks to Optimus Prime.
The expressions in this are great and spot on!
Oh and Miko… No loss to the Gene pool
Miko is Transformers’ greatest character ever.
She has the protection of Primus Himself and/or magical powers!
There is no other possible explanation for her continued survival.
Thank You! Miko Haters gonna Hate.
I anxiously await photos of your Miko shrine.
Your very, very tiny Miko shrine.
My Miko Shrine is currently a subset of my Aligned Autobot display.
I know it’s rare for me and Walky to agree.but Miko rocks. She’s a great character who needs the same level of development as Jack. She is just not being developed as she sbould be IMHO.
And I STILL think the kids should be *Master partners to their respective Autobots. But as long as they get SOME development and decent screen time in season 3 Ill be happy
Miko for Powermaster 2013!!
Seriously this would have been a perfect way to fix Bulkhead! Use Miko as a new spine!
Eh, there’s enough unintentional vaguely creepy subtext between Jack adn Arcee already WITHOUT them putting their bodies together on a regular basis.
The old ways of being an *Master were pretty implausible due to that whole ‘breaking every bone in their body’ problem, so we’re left with only one plausible model for human/transformer combination.
Yes, that Jack/Arcee business is the writers gearing up to introduce the kiss-play mechanic.
Megatron doing things the hard way? When has that happened? {very long list brought out}
Isn’t “four thousand millennia” redundant? A millennium is a thousand years.
And you can have a thousand of something that’s a thousand. That’s multiplication, not redundancy.
Granted, but in that instance surely it’d be easier to say “four million years?”
When you’re a species where ’4 million years’ is a length of time that a single individual can be fighting a war, you’ll probably start counting in millenia pretty quick. Probably about midway through your second one.
They could start counting Ice ages then it would only be four.
Maybe I just don’t want to end both of Optimus Prime’s lines with the same word.
I get that. That does tend to bug you when writing.
Oh, poor old Eeyore, uh.. I mean, Optimus Prime. Megatron has a much better grasp of dramatics than you do. He’s even given a much more enthusiastic promo for the Hub than you ever have! For shaaaaaaame!
Optimus’s expressions look a *lot* like Atomic Robo’s expressions. I’m guessing that that’s just the effect of independent efforts to show a world-weary, sarcastic expression upon a face that has glowing lights for eyes and rigid pieces standing in for eyebrows, but I’m curious if there is any direct influence.
(I assume it is not a direct influence, because otherwise Willis would have had at least some blog posts going on about how awesome Atomic Robo is.)
Megatron’s face totally sells this comic, as does Optimus’ reaction.
I’m just glad that I caught up on TFPrime this weekend so I finally get the joke. Although, Willis does a pretty good job of still making the comic funny even if you’re not heavily in the loop on TF stuff.
How did megatron became leader of the decepticons again?
Tradition.
By being the best at fighting and the most ruthless.
Note that neither of those things have anything to do with being actually smart.
Eh, that’s the Cybertronian Electoral College for ya.
Troll face Megatron! YES.
Megatron’s face is priceless
I want that derpface Megs as a gravatar….
Seconded! And add the Prime face-fault to the default rotation too, please.
I think I would laugh uncontrollably if they did mention something to that effect on Friday. But the Prime staff is not quite as meta as the Voltron staff. And my son would not get it.
Wait. Four Thousand Millennia? they’ve been at war for 4 million years?! Geez. Megatron has one hell of a life span.
As far as Megatrons go, 4 million years old is pretty spry.
Optional line for last but one frame:
Megatron: “Optimus, you DO realise you could have pulled any of the four keys out and it would’ve stopped cyberforming. Without as much as a scratch to the Omega Lock. ”
Optimus: (facepalm)